Category Archives: reading

I’m a sucker for a story about renewal. In her New York Times best-selling memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed takes us along on a monumental journey, both physical and metaphorical. At age 26, she is trying to find her way. Her father left when she was six; […]

I can read a novel for hours, luxuriating in a well-told story; an interesting piece of nonfiction can intrigue me for equally long periods. But poems . . . Only one poem can speak to me per day, it seems. I’ve discovered that reading a poem a day provides me the perfect pace, time spent […]

Karla K. Morton: New and Selected Poems (2010), TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series The Wonder Is: New and Selected Poems 1974-2004 by Jan Epton Seale Poems require a particular kind of attention, and I can absorb the dense phrasings of poetry only in small doses. In 2011, I met both the 2010 and the 2012 […]